• University of Waterloo, Ontario. The World Religions Conference (WRC) brings together scholars from the world’s major religions to speak on a common topic from...
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    was the World's Parliament of Religions, an initiative of the Swedenborgian layman (and judge) Charles Carroll Bonney. The Parliament of Religions was by...
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  • World Religions Conference World Sanskrit Conference World Scout Conference, the governing body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement World...
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    World's Religions (1893). India celebrates National Youth Day on the birth anniversary of the great Swami. The first World's Parliament of Religions was...
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  • Religions for Peace is an international coalition of representatives from the world's religions dedicated to promoting world peace. It was founded in 1970...
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    The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is an international Mennonite Anabaptist Christian denomination. Its headquarters are in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada...
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  • Parliament of Living Religions was part of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, inviting famous representatives of important living religions within the British...
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    four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic...
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  • world's different religions. In 1893, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions held, in conjunction with the World Colombian Exposition, a conference held...
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    Chinese folk religion. The People's Republic of China is officially an atheist state, but the government formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism...
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    pursuit of ahimsa, peace and brotherhood. In 1957, he convened a World Religions Conference with more than 1200 representatives from 27 countries and 500...
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  • WRC – (i) World Rally Championship WRC - World Religions Conference WRNS – (i) Women's Royal Naval Service (World War II UK) (pronounced "wrens") WRVS –...
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  • Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization...
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  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's religions. The motto of the first global conference which met September 11–15, 2006, and was inaugurated...
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    sacredness or spiritual power. Nature religions include indigenous religions practiced in various parts of the world by cultures who consider the environment...
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    religions also provided cohesion through a unified doctrine and practice shared by the nationwide community. The officially recognized new religions number...
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    other non-Christian religions (including Buddhism, Hindusim, Judaism and others), and 22.4% declared they did not belong to any religion, denomination or...
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    different religions are practised in Indonesia. Indonesia is officially a presidential republic and a unitary state without an established state religion. The...
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    Studies Conference Japan entitled "Messianity Makes the Person Useful: Describing Differences in a Japanese Religion in Brazil," Japanese new religions have...
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  • He traveled to Melbourne, Australia in December 2009 for the World Religions Conference. He continued to serve as vice president of the Church of Scientology...
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    denominations do not endorse the Catholic formulation. Several other religions have concepts resembling Purgatory: Gehenna in Judaism, al-A'raf or the...
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  • the world's main religious traditions. Scholars of religion Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein argued that "new religions are just young religions" and...
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  • Christianity Believers' Church J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ABC-CLIO...
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    people who have reverted into traditional religions from Catholic/Christian or Islamic religions. These religions are often syncretized with Christianity...
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  • The World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is a series of international events organized by UNESCO to promote struggle against racism ideologies and behaviours...
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  • Minority Religions. Routledge, 2017. 45-64. "Overview Of World Religions". General Essay on the Religions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Division of Religion and Philosophy...
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    Vietnamese do not follow any organized religion, instead participating in one or more practices of folk religions, such as venerating ancestors, or praying...
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  • of indigenous American religions those still survive to some degree at the beginning of the 21st century: Alaska Native religions, Abenaki, Anishinaabe...
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  • identify with no religion, 17% with Buddhism and 31% with Christianity (Protestantism with 20% and Catholicism with 11%) and other religions 2%. Buddhism...
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    Traditional religions are followed by about four percent, and unspecified and none eight percent. The other major religions of the world such as Islam...
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